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Jack Nasty

noun

Definitions

  1. A valet or pageboy.

    • Tom and his younger brothers, as they grew up, went on playing with the village boys, without the idea of equality or inequality […] ever entering their heads; as it doesn't till it's put there by Jack Nastys or fine ladies' maids.

  2. A contemptible or unpleasant person.

    • Don't lie, don't try to fool me, Ennis. I know what it means. Jack Twist? Jack Nasty.

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